I agree with you completely. Barghouti will eventually be released, from what I hear. He's considered a "bargaining chip", and will be let loose when the Israelis believe its time for a leadership change, so to speak.
Just to clarify vis Abunimah, he's not a two state guy. His argument is that a one state solution is the only realistic one, and is, for all intents and purposes, already in effect through the Occupation.
On May 9, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
> Yoshie wrote:
>
>> Ali Abunimah is smart, well-spoken, and very charming. I think of
>> him
>> as a counterpart to people like Bryan Atinsky on the Israeli side.
>> The
>> problem is that, in the near future, the chances of people like
>> Abunimah becoming the face of Palestinian politics are less than
>> zero,
>> and the chances of people like Bryan steering the directions of
>> Israeli politics are also less than zero. :-0
> =====================
> Your point's well taken. Really the people who need the most
> exposure in the
> West, even within the left, are those Palestinians who are most
> representative of the struggle - in the present context, those
> fighting for
> a viable Palestine as part of a genuine two-state solution, either
> explicitly like Fatah or implicitly like Hamas. Marwan Barghouti is
> someone
> who impresses me and needs to be de-demonized, and the Islamists
> have their
> own roster of people who present a very human face. See, for example.
> "Hamas: The Last Chance for Peace?" by Henry Siegman in the April
> 27th NY
> Review of Books.
>
>
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